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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Waitangi Day
Waitangi Day
Call for change on
By HAMISH MacLEAN
CONTINUED Page 3
Key role: Tai Tokerau paddler Rutene Gabel was a crew member
on Ngatokimatawhaorua, one of eight waka that took part in
Waitangi Day celebrations last week.
Good weather and good crowds
made Waitangi Day a memorable
celebration in the Far North
Waka approach the
beach at Waitangi on
February 6.
PRIME MINISTER John Key says
headway with Treaty settlements has
helped turn Waitangi Day into an
occasion to look to the future, rather
than the past.
''Within each of those iwi that has
settled, a new generation has been
freed from carrying the legacy which
has been handed down for, in many
cases, more than 100 years,'' he
says.
He says energy once spent on fixing
past injustices will now be spent
taking advantage of future
opportunities and encourages
Northland iwi to reach an agreement
on settlements.
''The biggest stimulus on the
horizon will come when Treaty
settlements are reached on all the
claims here, financially empowering
iwi and injecting several hundred
million dollars into the local
economy.''
Te Tai Tokerau MP Hone Harawira
took the opportunity of the prime
minister's welcome at Te Tii Marae on
Waitangi Day to highlight what he sees
as a lack of follow-through by the
Government on issues in the North.
He is concerned about the closure
of a secondary school programme last
year.
''You can only be optimistic about
what you want to do, about what you
know you can do,'' Mr Harawira says.
''The rest of it is just cross your
fingers stuff on what the other side is
going to do. There are no guarantees.
But I'll keep pushing it. It's something
that I believe in absolutely.''
The satellite programme at
Moerewa was disbanded and
students in a secondary programme
were ordered to disperse to other
schools. The school board was also
disbanded and a commissioner was
appointed.
''There's been no follow-through
with the kids,'' Mr Harawira says.
''There's been no follow-through with
the families.
''Shutting the school down, sending
them somewhere else, when there's
no follow-through on what's happening
with those kids is downright criminal.''
The community's concern about
gangs in the town just highlights the
importance of the availability of
education in Moerewa,'' he says.
''When you've got something as
positive as Moerewa School, when
kids come out of there, gangs aren't
even on their radar.
''Their minds are filled with their
own potential, what they could